[vdr] Re: Unified ALSA output plugin?

[Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>]

Am Montag, 15. Dezember 2003 16:40 schrieb Gaubatz Patrick:
> The idea with the DVI-output is the same I had some weeks ago...
> My 'problem' is that we're going to get a new videobeamer and
> therefore I was searching for a way to get the videosignal from my
> DVB-card to my graphics adapter - no way! The only alternative would

full featured or budget ? The last one => libxineout-plugin + 
oxine/xinefb ? The first one (depending on if your machine is big 
emough) => tvtime and dvb-kernel driver. I have tried tvtime and it 
looks absolutly nice (at least in my eyes). I haven't even tried tvtime 
with dscaler intrlacer (i think the recommended deinterlacer for 
tvtime)

> be something like MythTV or freevo. But their DVB-support is only
> preliminary, so the only way would be, to implent an "output-plugin"
> for VDR. Maybe DirectFB (http://www.directfb.org) would be just
> perfect to do something like that...

i thought xinelibout is there and allready usuable isn't it ?

> Zitat von hm@seneca.muc.de:
> > Sorry if that has been beaten to death before but I can only read
> > the ML every other week or so (when I'm not business travelling or
> > hacking).
> >
> > As you may remember I posted a patch to the MP3OSS plugin, enabling
> > it to send decoded data to ALSA using aplay. I know it's a hack.
> > But on the other hand, now that ALSA replaces OSS in the 2.6 kernel
> > stream (finally, might I say, because many ALSA drivers can do a
> > LOT more nice things than most OSS drivers), I guess it's time to
> > move on and start supporting ALSA properly. The only plugin so far
> > is Werner's bitstreamout. Then we have MP3, OGG, etc. Wouldn't it
> > be clever to have just one plugin that does it all, and very much
> > properly so?
> >
> > And while we're at suggesting features - now that many LCD TV units
> > have DVI inputs, it would be great to be able to route the TV
> > picture to DVI, avoiding multiple digital - analog - digital
> > conversions. Maybe using svgalib or on the X11 root window, I mean,
> > i.e. in a family-friendly way.
> >
> > :-))
> >
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> >
> >
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